I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some read more

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

But O yet more miserable!
Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.

But O yet more miserable!
Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.

Hope is the physician of each misery.

Hope is the physician of each misery.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

Meagre were his looks,
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones;
And in his needy shop read more

Meagre were his looks,
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones;
And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,
An alligator stuffed, and other skins
Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves
A beggarly account of boxes,
Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds,
Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses
Were thinly scattered, to make up a show.

Misery travels free through the whole world!
[Ger., Frei geht das Ungluck durch die ganze Erde!]

Misery travels free through the whole world!
[Ger., Frei geht das Ungluck durch die ganze Erde!]

Grim-visaged, comfortless despair.

Grim-visaged, comfortless despair.

We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of
continued happiness?
[Fr., Il read more

We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of
continued happiness?
[Fr., Il ne se faut jamais moquer des miserables,
Car qui peut s'assurer d'etre toujours heureux?]

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.